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Fail-Safe

Critics' Rating:

Release Year:
1964

MPAA Rating:NR

Genre:Thriller

Director:Sidney Lumet

During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when and if to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system malfunction, the President of the United States must scramble to fix the mistake before the bombs are dropped on Moscow. He manages to stop almost all the bombers headed for Moscow, except for one determined pilot who manages to complete his mission, with deadly consequences.

Cast
:

Henry Fonda

The President

Walter Matthau

Prof. Groeteschele

Dan O'Herlihy

Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black

Sorrell Booke

Congressman Raskob

Larry Hagman

Buck

Frank Overton

Gen. Bogan (SAC, Omaha)

Dom DeLuise

TSgt. Collins

Producers
:

Sidney Lumet
,
Max E. Youngstein

Writers
:

Walter Bernstein

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